NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1939
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Michael Meltsner Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-428
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the papers of Michael Meltsner and covers his career as an author, a civil rights lawyer, and law school professor. It is organized into eleven records series.
Dates:
1949-2024, undated; Majority of material found in 1961-2024, undated; Other: Date acquired: 2014 May 29
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1954-2024, undated
Sub-Series
Identifier: Subseries 3
Scope and Contents
Subseries 3 contains materials covering Meltsner's career with the NAACP Legal Defense fund. The NAACP LDF materials consist of articles, book chapters, correspondence, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous ephemera and cover topics such as bail practices, medical care and hospital segregation, the death penalty, and representing Muhammad Ali. Some copies of correspondence materials in this subseries, including the Jack Greenberg correspondence, are located at the Library of Congress and...
Dates:
1954-2024, undated